Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「剜肉醫瘡」, as shown below.
Here’s the idiom 「剜肉醫瘡」, with its definition and practical application described below.
A metaphor for only caring about the present and using harmful methods to solve emergencies.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wān ròu yī chuāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wun1 yuk6 yi1 chong1
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